Shafer v. Sloan

Action for damages. Findings and judgment in favor of plaintiff for $500, from which defendant appeals. The complaint, the allegations of which were by the trial court found to be true, alleges the sale by defendant and purchase by plaintiff in 1886 of a stock of second-hand furniture, together with the goodwill, under a written agreement that defendant should not engage in the occupation of keeping a second-hand store in the town of San Bernardino so long as plaintiff should continue in such business, upon default of which defendant should pay to plaintiff the sum of $500. It is further…